OMICS Group, an online publishing house for academic journals based in Hyderabad, India, purchased the Canadian medical publisher Andrew John Publishing last winter and added a second, Pulsus Group, in June. Article Continued BelowThe company’s owner, Srinubabu Gedela, says OMICS does not exert any control over the Canadian medical journals. When contacted by the Star, PubMed representatives were not able to say what will happen to the Canadian medical journals now published by OMICS. Rose Simpson, the former managing editor of four medical journals with Andrew John Publishing, has become a whistleblower for scientific integrity. She wants the Canadian medical research community to know that OMICS, a disreputable publisher with questionable standards, has taken over as publisher of a dozen Canadian medical journals.

Source: thestar September 29, 2016 09:56 UTC